Download Out! 1.0 (1.6MB)


What does it do?

Closes your windows when you drag them outside the screen.


Can I have more details?

You can press the Option key while dragging to temporarily deactivate it.

Out! plays a sound randomly chosen in the 'Out! Sounds Folder' inside your Preferences folder when it closes a window.

You can use one of the desktop pictures specially designed for Out! They are very nice and provide a line near the border of the screen: if you drag outside the line, the window is closed.

Example: if you drag a window to this part of your desktop, it's automatically closed.

Will my Mac still ask me if I want to save my document before closing it?

Out! simulates a click in the close box of the window, so what would happen when you click in the close box will happen when you drag the window outside the screen.


Sorry, it doesn't work. I drag my window just at the edge of the screen and nothing happens.

It works only on the left, right, and bottom sides, not on the top (because you often drag window to the top not to close them but to put the title bar on the top).

Before trying Out!, you may have noticed you can't drag windows at the extreme edge of the screen (when the cursor is near the edge, the outline of the window you are dragging disappears). Same thing with Out!, if you go too close to the edge, nothing happens. Except in some applications.


Out! works on Mac OS 9



The sounds by A.N. Productions
To be placed in the 'Out! Sounds Folder' inside your Preferences folder. You have to use the sounds in the Download column, not the ones in the Preview column.

Sounds Preview click to listen Download
Digital  30K 264K
Music Box 16K 124K
Power Chord 34K 304K
Power Chord II 34K 304K
Piano 20K 140K
Piano II 35K 236K
Piano String 30K 244K
Spacedrum 19K 151K



The desktop pictures by Hans Claesson
Save the image to your Mac
Open the Appearance control panel
Click on the Desktop tab
Drag the saved image to the control panel
Click on the Set Desktop button

Pictures Preview Choose a Resolution
click to view
control-click to download
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1152 x 870
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1152 x 870
1280 x 1024
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